Should you 'friend' your child's teacher?

8:14 PM,
Oct. 3, 2012

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facebook is a great way to keep up with friends and family. But should it be a way to keep in touch with your child's teacher? "Our advice to teachers, whether they are new teachers or seasoned teachers, is that using social media to communicate when there is a student-parent-teacher relationship is probably not a good idea," said Pat Kennedy, president of the Muncie Teachers Association. "It can be a very slippery slope."

Kennedy said that it's "too easy for things to be misrepresented." Comments, she said, could be made that could upset the teacher or the parent.